I've been keeping this blog since 2003 and much of what I've written was originally posted publicly. I've come to a point in my life, though, where it seems more prudent to at the very least keep things behind a basic filter. Partly this is to protect myself, but mostly it is to stop the ridiculous volume of spam comments I kept having to delete from entries six or seven years old.

In any case, when I re-vamped my homepage earlier this year I decided to make some changes here as well. Seeing as I have 10 years of material, it was WAY simpler to change every public post en masse to "friends only" than to weed through them one by one. So that's why everything has disappeared. If anyone is keen to have access again to my formerly public ramblings, simply add me as a friend on LJ and I'll friend you back. :)

That's all for now. I really need to do another update soon...so much has been going on.